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What is space weather?

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Released

06/11/2018

Length

00:01:45

Copyright

ESA - European Space Agency

Description

Our star dominates the environment within our Solar System. Unpredictable and temperamental, the Sun has made life on the inner-most planets impossible, due to the intense radiation and colossal amounts of energetic material it blasts in every direction, creating the ever-changing conditions in space known as ‘space weather’.